Attempts to clarify the positions of T. Nix and J. Barnette on statistical significance testing, advocates the routine use of effect size, and encourages reporting results in simple terms. (SLD)

A review is a tool of "recasting" of both literature and "the lived"--that location of social relations that mediates the recognition, reckoning, and witness of experience. The reviewer-researcher can be seen as a grammarian of the order, both handler and maker of the research tool. (SLD)

A study examined effect-size reporting in 23 quantitative articles reported in "Exceptional Children". Findings reveal that effect sizes are rarely being reported, although exemplary reporting practices were also noted. Reasons why encouragement by the American Psychological Association to report effect size has been ineffective are…

Analysis of descriptive reports about individuals with autism included case studies, diagnostic reports, single-subject research studies, family accounts, and autobiographies. Seven distinct types of descriptions were identified, including a child on a specific occasion, typical behavior, what a child should have done, how behavior was…

Analyzes the contents of "Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education" (JPEE) since its inception in 1987. Concludes that the JPEE has published a comprehensive array of evaluation theory and practice articles, and that the journal is highly oriented toward teacher evaluation and dominated by U.S. authors. (Author/SLD)

Discusses pitfalls authors can avoid in their research to improve their chances for publication: careless writing; unspecified assumptions; undefined context; unanswerable questions; soft and/or fuzzy hypotheses; vague, undefined terms; inadequate samples; inappropriate use of students in conducting research; inappropriate conclusions; multiple…

Makes the case that science is best served when researchers focus on the size of effects and their practical significance. Advocates the use of confidence intervals for deciding whether chance or sampling variability is an unlikely explanation for an observed effect. Calls for more emphasis on effect sizes in the next edition of the American…

Reports on the way in which impersonal constructions encoded in the transitivity structure are used in experimental research articles, allowing writers to strategically distance themselves from the information they present. Focuses on clusters of features of the transitivy structure that characterize the genre, their relation to the specific goals…

Focuses on the current trend to critique the governing assumptions of research writing at the same time that a critical research practice is being developed. The article argues that the genres of academic writing are more integral to intellectual practices than traditionally assumed. (31 references) (Author/CK)

Describes an assay to determine the rate of photoreduction of 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCPIP). Acquaints students with experimental design and teaches them how to evaluate and communicate their results with the goal of enhancing their scientific literacy by integrating basic chemistry and arithmetic into their practical experience. (JRH)

Describes how to use weekly reports and addresses three questions: (1) What did you learn this week?; (2) What questions remained unclear?; and (3) If you were the professor, what questions would you ask to find out whether students understood the material? Student writing was used as a two-way feedback tool in teaching science. (Contains 21…

Used data from the Survey on Family and School Partnerships in Public Schools, K-8 of the National Center for Education Statistics to examine the level of agreement between parents' and schools' view of how schools involve parents in their children's education and how parents respond to the opportunities for involvement that schools provide.…

Describes the main lines of research in behavioral creativity and comments on approaches that have concentrated on personality-related or cognitive aspects of creativity or that have studied attempts to stimulate creativity. In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the human capacity for producing new and original ideas in a social…

Reports on a study of counselors-in-training who completed systematic groups skills training based on the Skilled Group Counseling Training Model (SGCTM). Findings indicate that higher level group-counseling skills can be efficiently taught prior to practica and internships. Concludes that if counselors-in-training gain higher level skills prior…

Presents five annual reports, from the American Library Association, Association of American Publishers, American Booksellers Association, Association of Research Libraries, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. (LRW)